Football giants

Chapter 828 I Can't Eat Hot Tofu

"Knock knock knock!"

"Please come in!"

A 30-year-old German with beards and a little baldness on the top of his head, with a sneaky look, just like a thief, slipped into the office of the editor-in-chief of the Bild newspaper headquartered in Hamburg.

"Oh, it's you, Christian!"

The editor-in-chief Dickman sitting behind the desk raised his head, glanced at him, and said after seeing the person clearly.

"It's me, editor-in-chief!" Christian Falco looked around, as if wanting to see if there was anyone else in the room.

Dickman, who was planning to keep working hard, immediately laughed when he saw him like this, "Don't look, I'm alone!"

After finishing speaking, he stared at the subordinate in front of him again, and reached out to lift the thick black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, "What? Christian, is there any big news?"

"Yes, great news!" said Christian Falco.

"How big?" Dickman asked.

Christian Falco smiled, "I promise, at least, in the next week, we don't have to worry about the news of the sports sector."

"Really?" Dickman's eyes lit up, and he became interested immediately.

As the editor-in-chief of Bild, he also bears a lot of pressure on his shoulders, especially now.

Everyone knows that in the past few years, the paper media is gradually dying out, and the Internet age has arrived. Even Bild, one of the most important newspapers in Germany, is having a hard time.

"However, you have to agree, let me take charge!" Christian Falco took the opportunity to bargain.

"Of course!" Dickman nodded, "Please, Christan, don't talk anymore, just like we used to, talk about it!"

"As I mentioned to you, didn't Hamburg plan to transform into a joint-stock company and sell some of its shares?"

"Well, yes, what's the matter?" Dickman asked curiously.

"A lot of us thought at the time that the most likely candidate was Alexander Otto, right?"

"Yeah!" Dickman nodded.

Alexander Otto, a local rich man in Hamburg, is also a loyal Hamburg fan. He has always been the fan representative of Hamburg and has a strong influence among the local fans.

Therefore, when the management of Hamburg decided to sell their shares, many people believed that Alexander Otto was about to sell.

Many Hamburg fans are even appealing, hoping that the 46-year-old local rich man will simply buy the club directly.

But in fact, Otto never made a move.

Afterwards analysis, on the one hand, it was because he had no money, and on the other hand, I am afraid that he was afraid of the terrible management of Hamburg.

"Didn't I know Alexander Otto's maid quite well then? Do you remember?"

Dickman nodded, and laughed, "Remember, you sacrificed your hue for this!"

Christian Falco scratched his head in embarrassment, "Oh, editor-in-chief, I sacrificed for my work."

"Okay, okay, go on, what's going on?"

Bild has always been known for poaching people's privacy and even creating some news materials.

Dickmann's most proud masterpiece was reporting on the German president's low-interest rate mortgage. As a result, he was so angry that he called the newspaper to criticize him and asked him to postpone the publication of this report.

The results of it?
Stupid came right to the door, giving Dickman a great opportunity to hype.

What was originally a small private debt scandal turned abruptly into a presidential scandal.

In the end, this matter completely became the fuse for losing public opinion and finally stepping down in despair.

As the editor-in-chief of Bild, Dickman is very keen on this kind of privacy mining, because he always believes that everyone will be interested in the privacy and scandals of celebrities. In this regard, he feels that the positioning of Bild is very close to that of the British Sun.

It is also because of Dickman's philosophy that the behavior of the top and bottom of Bild is very consistent.

That's why Christian Falco deliberately sought out a relationship with Alexander Otto's maid in order to dig out news.

And no one thought that when they thought they had done nothing, the maid brought them heavy news.

"She asked me out just now and told me that she heard a conversation at home between Alexander Otto and the current Burger Club CEO Thomas Reich and Dietmar Beiersdorf about corruption in the management of Hamburg!"

"Really?" When Dickman heard this, his eyes lit up, and he stood up involuntarily.

"Indeed!" Christian Falco was sure.

Dickman nodded. He knew his subordinate. If there was no such thing, he would not dare to talk nonsense.

"What's the specific situation, let's hear it!" Dickman sat down again, stopped what he was dealing with just now, and looked at Christian Falco in front of him. With his always sensitive sense of smell, he knew very well that this was big news.

Regardless of the fact that Hamburg is now on the verge of the relegation zone, as everyone knows, Hamburg is in the Bundesliga, which is second only to Bayern Munich.

Know what the game between Hamburg and Bayern Munich is called?

North and South Derby!

Almost the entire German football world agrees that there is only one team in Germany that can challenge Bayern Munich, and that is Hamburg!
As for Dortmund, Schalke 04 and so on, although it is possible to rise occasionally, it is difficult to persevere.

After all, their objective environment limits their long-term challenge to the bottleneck of Bayern Munich.

But Hamburg is different, the objective environment of Hamburg is even better than Bayern Munich!

But why has the situation in Hamburg gone from bad to worse over the past few years?

Many people don't know that as early as four years ago, Bild had tracked the internal corruption problem in Hamburg.

At that time, Hamburg’s high-level power struggled, and Beiersdorf was forced to leave the team. The then chairman of Hamburg was Hoffmann with a marketing background, and Bild even made a special report, saying that Hamburg spent a net investment of 3000 million euros in the seven years from [-] to [-], but the results were getting worse and worse.

But that report was ultimately terminated due to the interruption of clues, and Hoffmann stepped down in [-], and Kerhoff replaced him as the new chairman of Hamburg.

But after Kerkhove came to power, everything he did was obviously not much better than Hoffman, and even worse, which caused Hamburg to be relegated a little bit last season, and the team's finances were also heavily in debt, so they had to sell their shares to pay off debts.

Therefore, if at this time, Bild finds out the internal corruption in Hamburg and obtains tangible evidence, then...

When Dickman thought of this, he suddenly felt that the next picture was so beautiful that people couldn't bear to look directly at it!

"The editor-in-chief, according to the maid's report, should be Beiersdorf and Thomas Lake. After taking over the sports department and financial department of the team, they found many problems when cleaning up the past accounts. Therefore, they want to seek help from Alexander Otto and hope to further investigate this matter thoroughly."

When Dickman heard it, he suddenly realized, "Yes, this is the right way!"

Isn't it?
In the past, Hamburg was run by guys like Hoffman and Kerhoff. Their purpose was to make money and profit, regardless of your team's finances?Anyway, it's really out of control, isn't there still rich fans paying for it?
But things are clearly different now.

Hamburg is now a joint-stock system, and a large part of the shares are privately held. Investors will definitely care about their return on investment, so they will no longer let Kerkhove and others do whatever they want.

"What did Alexander Otto say?" Dickman asked with concern.

"I heard that he intends to invite several other fan representatives to negotiate!"

"Negotiation?" Dickman shook his head and sneered, "What's the point of negotiating? Why don't you just disclose the news to the public? Anyway, the foundation of Hamburg is rotten. No matter how hard you try, can it be worse than it is now? At worst, it's downgraded!"

Christian Falco smiled wryly, as the editor-in-chief himself is really not afraid of big things when he watches the excitement.

"Editor-in-Chief, Alexander Otto means that the team is now on the right track with great difficulty. The results of the warm-up match are so good, and the fans have high hopes for the team. The sales of season tickets this season is the peak that has never been seen in the past two or three years. Therefore, he is afraid that it will affect the team's performance."

Dickman nodded, at least he believed that Alexander Otto and others really loved hamburgers.

"However, Beiersdorf also believes that the cancer in the team should be eliminated as soon as possible, because he found that it is not just some small fish and shrimps involved in these matters. It is said that the person in charge of the personnel resources department, Horst Becker, and the old courtier who has worked for Hamburg for more than ten years, Bernd Vermeer."

Who knows, it's okay if he doesn't say anything, but when he does, Dickman feels like he's been beaten.

"Really? Even the two of them are involved?"

"Yes, the maid did hear Thomas Lake mention their names."

"Wow Kaka, what are you waiting for? Just grab the guy and do it!" Dickman is really afraid that the world will not be chaotic.

This Horst Becker is in charge of personnel resources. I believe it goes without saying that anyone can guess the importance of this position. As for Bernd Vermeer, he has played for the club for 15 years and has served as a team leader and manager. He has also been in power.

Before Kruse took office, he was the most popular person to serve as the football director of the Hamburg team, and almost everyone supported him very much, but in the end Becker finally chose Kruse, and it is said that Kerhoff was behind it.

But, well now, both of them have been dragged into the water.

It can be seen that the drama is not over yet!

If it is true as Thomas Lake and Beiersdorf said, then the entire management team in Hamburg is rotten, will there be only these two people?
Could it be that Kerkhoff, or even Kruse, could they be spared?

I'm afraid not necessarily!
"Editor-in-Chief, what should we do now?" Christian Falco also asked excitedly.

But Dickman was calm at this time, because he did not know how many times he had worked on such breaking news.

"This matter involves a lot, and there are a lot of rumors. The fans must be very concerned. Therefore, we must first collect more inside information."

"Collect more inside information?" Christian Falco was a little embarrassed.

Where is this going to be collected?
Seeing him like this, Dickman chuckled, "Don't worry, isn't Thomas Lake from the financial department? I happen to know someone in there, so I don't believe I can't dig out something!"

Christian Falco looked surprised.

Can't see it, I edited this trick of dark chess, but it's buried deep enough!
"Then, editor-in-chief, don't we do anything now?" Christian Falco was a little depressed.

Diekman shook his head with a smile and said: "No, it's not that you don't do anything, but take your time. There is an old Chinese saying that only fine water can flow for a long time. If you are impatient, you can't eat hot tofu!"

"Huh?" Christian Falco was completely puzzled.

He couldn't figure out what it meant.

Why is it obviously a matter of the Germans, what are the Chinese doing?
Also, what tofu?How to eat?

(End of this chapter)